There is a reason for my negligence -- I am finishing my dissertation and will be defending it on February 29th! This semester, after twelve long years (including a four-year break from grad school, changing schools and concentrations, and three kids), I will finally finish my PhD! But I am going to be working like crazy over the next month, preparing for my defense, so am going to be ignoring all non-essential things like blog posts (and cleaning the house, and starting the garden, and cooking dinners, and anything else I can think of to set aside for another month).
Adelaida, Cordelia, and Estella, of course, can't just be ignored for a month until I'm done with my dissertation. Fortunately, Dale has been wonderful about being the primary care person for them when he is home and has provided me with several hours of uninterrupted time to work this month. And, this being January and the kids (all three of them!) being in school, we've seen our fair share of illnesses recently. The kids have had five unanticipated stay-at-home days in the past two weeks, and I suspect we'll have another tomorrow. Dale has stayed home with them two full days so that I could go to work, and he's already trying to rearrange his schedule to stay home part of the day tomorrow. Thank you Dale!
Last weekend, I walked downstairs to get something and found Dale cuddling with all three of his little girls on the sofa, watching football (or was it a "soccer-ball" game? I don't remember). He was holding both Estella (on the left) and Cordelia, and also had an orange bucket full of legos that Adelaida insisted he hold. He was keeping all three kids happy so I could work. What a super-Daddy!
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